Receiving money not mine

I'm not talking about mass crime here. The company has made a mistake no one indivdual is losing out at least not in any significant way.

Theres been no intent by the OP to deliberatly scam the company. Why should he make an effort to sort out their mistake.
 
It would be hard resist it but i wouldn't want to get into trouble so id give it back. Imagine you being the person who made the mistake in the first place. They would probably get into big trouble.
 
Yeah but he would contact them about it and be entitled to his money back. The same is true if the company asked for it back, which it seems touch wood they haven't/won't. :)

I'm sure a big company will soon sort out its inefficiencys if they want to remain successful.
 
Mikol said:
Keep it, but don't spend it. When they ask for it back, you give it to them. In the meantime, it can earn a few small pennies interest in your account:)
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Yeah that's what I'd do. If they ask for it back and you give it back you're not going to get in any trouble. On the other hand if they never ask for it back, you've got £330!
 
Its not theft as they put it there. If you paid twice you would notice and ask for the money back, therefore its up to them to ask for it. And seeing as they put it there your entitled to say no.
For instance if the place you work at pays you to much they can ask for it back but you can say no, in that case they are entitled to pay you less next month to cover it, so worst case they may say you cant come back to our shop until you pay up.
But lets be honest if its a big online/high street retailer, what’s £330 quid? Not much really.
 
Lummux said:
But lets be honest if its a big online/high street retailer, what’s £330 quid? Not much really.
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Dishonesty (including the type discussed in this thread) costs British businesses billions of pounds every year. Who do you think pays for this? I'll give you a clue; it isn't the shareholders of the defrauded companies ;)

Stan :)
 
Hostile17 said:
I'm not talking about mass crime here. The company has made a mistake no one indivdual is losing out at least not in any significant way.
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Which still doesn't make it right, does it?
Hostile17 said:
Theres been no intent by the OP to deliberately scam the company.
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But intending to keep it is an attempt to deprive the lawful owner isn't it?
Hostile17 said:
Why should he make an effort to sort out their mistake.
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Because he's a good person and would expect the same in return?
 
Lets be honest here - who actually cares!?
You're dammed in here if you do and dammed if you don't.

Does anyone know what the law says on this? If it's a case of possession is 9/10ths then raise a glass to the donkeys at said store :)
It's been a month and they've obviously got too much money for their own good as they don't know it's missing.

Send them a belated Christmas card saying thanks :)
 
Mr Blonde said:
Lets be honest here - who actually cares!?
You're dammed in here if you do and dammed if you don't.

Does anyone know what the law says on this? If it's a case of possession is 9/10ths then raise a glass to the donkeys at said store :)
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It's more like the other way round, 90% on Dishonesty and 10% on Appropriation. Being dishonest is the most important aspect in theft, there are cases where the owner actually helped the theives to move £30,000 of TV into their van and still theft. Some argues that how can it be theft if the owner helped them move it? Well, the point comes down to dishonesty.

Would the OP be honest or dishonest in keeping the money that does not belong to him? What do you think? And what do you think now the law think on this?
 
i had a similar sort of thing with a phone company a while back..

i ordered my upgrade phone, they sent it to me and the camera didnt work, but everything else did...

so i called them up, and emailed them saying about it..
in the email they said "send us back the phone, and we'll send you a replacement when we recieve it"
on the phone the lady said "we'll send you a new phone and then you use the new phones packaging to send the old phone back"

i said to the woman on the phone thats a strange way of doing it, but she said thats standard procedure, so i just went with it.

i got a new phone through the post, and i still have the one with a broken camera here. that was at the beginning of october last year, and havent heard anything about it since.
 
I dont see how this is theft (as so many people seem to want to point out) as the company put it there?

What would be theft is if they decided to charge him £330 to recover the overcharge without receiving authorisation beforehand.
 
Burned_Alive said:
I dont see how this is theft (as so many people seem to want to point out) as the company put it there?

What would be theft is if they decided to charge him £330 to recover the overcharge without receiving authorisation beforehand.
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Weather you see it that way or not doesn't matter mate....it's theft simple as.
 
Burned_Alive said:
I dont see how this is theft (as so many people seem to want to point out) as the company put it there?

What would be theft is if they decided to charge him £330 to recover the overcharge without receiving authorisation beforehand.
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If the OP kept it, it would be theft because he would knowingly have in his posession, something which did not belong to him with the intention of depriving the rightful owners of it.

Stan :)
 
SidewinderINC said:
i got a new phone through the post, and i still have the one with a broken camera here. that was at the beginning of october last year, and havent heard anything about it since.
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Don't mean to offend or wanna cause any fights but isnt that your fault for not holding up your end of the bargain? I was in the same situation with logitech when a wireless pad broke. They sent me the new one and I had two pads in my possession. I then didnt think twice about sending the old one back :)
 
singist said:
Weather you see it that way or not doesn't matter mate....it's theft simple as.
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But is it? Is it really?
Id like to see someone relate this to actual law, rather than just saying "Its theft because it is". You cant expect people to just accept that, id like some facts before i make up my mind...

Bigstan said:
If the OP kept it, it would be theft because he would knowingly have in his posession, something which did not belong to him with the intention of depriving the rightful owners of it.

Stan :)
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Ok, but what about someone who doesnt really check their bank account and didnt know it was there?
 
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